Licence agreement

Clip Engine is made by Clip Engine Pty Ltd, PO Box 199, North Essendon VIC 3041, Australia ("we", "us"). Contact: support@clipengine.net. By installing or using Clip Engine you agree to these terms.

1. Your licence

We give you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to install and use Clip Engine on computers you control. Clip Engine Free costs nothing. A Clip Engine Pro licence key may be active on up to two computers at a time; deactivate it on one (Settings > Deactivate this PC) to use it on another.

2. Clip Engine Pro

Pro is a one-time purchase. It includes every future update of Clip Engine that we publish, for as long as we publish them. Pro is sold through our reseller, Polar (the merchant of record), which handles the payment, sales taxes and your receipt under its own terms.

Refunds: we don't give refunds for a change of mind. If Clip Engine Pro doesn't work as described and we can't fix it within a reasonable time, contact support@clipengine.net and we will refund you. This doesn't limit your rights under the Australian Consumer Law or other laws that apply to you (see section 8).

3. Your API key and your accounts

Clip Engine uses your own Anthropic API key and your own accounts on the platforms you stream or post to. You pay Anthropic and those platforms directly for what you use, under their terms, and you're responsible for keeping those keys and accounts secure. Clip Engine shows an estimate of your AI costs; your Anthropic account is the authoritative record.

4. Your content

Only process, download, stream or post videos you have the right to use. You're responsible for what you publish and for following each platform's rules (including rules about streaming to several platforms at once).

5. What stays on your computer

Clip Engine runs on your computer. We never receive your videos, clips, transcripts, stream keys, API keys or account tokens. The app connects to:

• Anthropic, when AI is on: the transcript text being scored or captioned, sent with your own key;
• Polar, when you activate or use Pro: your licence key, your computer's name, an anonymous device ID and the app version, to check the licence;
• clipengine.net: to check for updates (the app sends its version);
• the platforms you stream or post to, and the sites of any links you paste, when you ask it to.

Clip Engine has no analytics or tracking.

6. What you may not do

Don't sell, rent or share licence keys; don't remove the Free version's watermark other than by buying Pro; don't get around the licence checks; and don't use Clip Engine to break the law or anyone else's rights.

7. Other people's software

Clip Engine includes open-source software, such as FFmpeg (under the GNU GPL version 3) and Python. Those parts are licensed under their own terms, listed in the "licenses" folder where Clip Engine is installed. Nothing in this agreement limits your rights under those licences.

8. Consumer guarantees and liability

Our goods come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. You are entitled to a replacement or refund for a major failure and compensation for any other reasonably foreseeable loss or damage. You are also entitled to have the goods repaired or replaced if the goods fail to be of acceptable quality and the failure does not amount to a major failure.

Apart from those rights and any others that the law doesn't allow us to exclude: Clip Engine is provided as it is; we don't promise it will be free of errors or will keep working with third-party platforms, which change their services without notice; and our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us for Clip Engine Pro. Please keep your own copies of your videos and clips.

9. Ending this licence

You can stop using Clip Engine at any time by uninstalling it. This licence ends automatically if you break these terms. Sections 4, 7 and 8 continue after it ends.

10. Changes and law

We may update these terms for future versions; the version you accepted applies to the copy you installed. These terms are governed by the law of Victoria, Australia.

See also: Privacy · Refunds